Education Needs Science
As educators, we need to start digging beyond the tales told to us. We need to do more than look for the narrative next door. Narratives are fantastic, but at the end of the day, the story is just a story. Science can help us explain.
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Student Perspective on the Shift to Standards-Based Grading
Last week, I had a very enlightening conversation with my students. My district is transitioning to a standard-based report card next year, which includes the removal of letter grades from our system. I have been using standards-based learning and grading in all of my sixth grade science classes throughout this current year, so my students are
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Siemens Science Day
Today, the sixth grade science classes at Caruso Middle School were visited by fourteen amazing volunteers from Siemens Healthcare as part of their Siemens Science Day program. Volunteers led a lab activity on the dangers of antibacterial soap, which fits perfectly in our current unit on microlife. Testing the bacteria Students replicated the work that
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Hour of Code
Today, students (and teachers!) participated in Hour of Code. If you aren’t familiar, Hour of Code is part of Computer Science Education Week and encourages people of all ages and ability levels to have fun with coding! Or, in the words of a few students today … Here are some other things I’ve been
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Random Acts of Awesome
I’ve always considered myself lucky to work with such incredible young people. Not a day goes by where they don’t do something that amazes me and really shows how phenomenal they are. However in the last few weeks, I experienced an onslaught of crazy cool things … it can only be described as a few weeks crammed
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What It Felt Like to Have a Blank Grade Book
It was ten days until the end of the quarter, and my grade book still did not have a single grade in it. The grades were coming, so I was starting to breathe a little easier, but still … eight weeks in and not a single published grade. At the start of the
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Announcing the Launch of keepushealthy.dps109.org
For the past several weeks, all ninety-three students in my sixth grade science classes have been working toward one common goal … to create their own website. Finally, it’s ready to be shown to the world! I’m so pleased to announce the launch of … keepushealthy.dps109.org Their purpose in creating the website was to
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